Presents Thomas More's vision of Utopia, an island supporting a perfectly organized and happy people ... This third edition includes scholarship since 2002, when the previous edition was published.
Presents a revised translation of Sir Thomas More's classic novel "Utopia," and includes background selections from major secular and religious texts and modern critical essays.
Presents three utopian works of literature from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Thomas More's satirical piece that originated the concept of utopia; Francis Bacon's fictional "New Atlantis"; and Henry Neville's fable "The Isle of Pines.".